Hush

Adequate low-budget Brit thriller. A young couple, Zakes and Beth (William Ash and Christine Bottomley), are driving down the M1 when they see something scary in the van up ahead, a woman chained up and screaming. When they stop at the next service station Beth gets snatched and Zakes begins a dangerous pursuit of the man in the white van. Writer/director Mark Tonderai manages to muster a few good scares and keeps things moving at a fast lick. Ash's believable performance helps as well, although the now predictable "fleshing out" (Beth had a one-night stand with another man and is considering calling off her relationship with Zakes) of the characters before the film drops them into peril is poorly written and, in the end, serves little purpose. There are also one too many genre clichés to make Hush stand out against the likes of, say, Eden Lake.